Belly-shaking laughter loosens mind’s tight
grip and lightens
our earnest,
heavy
souls.
JDG
Border Crossing
No words were needed.
Amidst the tears a look was
exchanged, a smile
was shared, and for a moment
their quite different worlds were joined.
JDG
Momentary Disturbance
The only thing disturbing the peace of
this moment – the
chattering
of my
mind.
JDG
Timely Musings
How
full
empty
is.
~
How
empty
full
can
be.
JDG
Sessions of Injustice
They tried to silence,
as so many have tried before,
that voice crying in
the moral wilderness. They
might take a moment
and ask how well that’s worked in
history’s long arc. There
have always been those who heard
the silenced voices
speak and kept alive the call
to bend history’s arc toward justice.
JDG
The Heart Of America
It won’t make the news,
but today a stranger saw
me struggle to lift
a case of bottled water
and put it in my
grocery cart. “Let me help you,”
she said, and added
with a smile, “I’d want someone
to help my granny too.”
JDG
Incrementalism And Beyond
It takes courage to
grab ahold of the rope of
hope and not let go,
especially when we’re told it’s
ill-advised by those
more cynical and more “wise”.
When hope joins hands with
effort, steadfast and informed,
cultural shifts can be born.
JDG
Big Questions
Caught in an argument, I ask myself,
” Do I want to
connect or
do I
want
to
win?” This
is enough
to give me pause…
Can I listen to both myself and him?
JDG
February’s Saturday Homecoming
February finally
gave up trying
to be some other month
and settled in,
at least for today,
to simply be itself.
JDG
Look Before You Leap
Sometimes “Follow the
Leader” will take a nation
right over the cliff.
JDG
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